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Here’s the logic path: checking out the latest skate news from ShadLambert.com, clicked on a link to Theskateboardmag.com, and then on a post that said the following: The kids at Panasonic have given Atiba and a few others a venue to post photographs & thoughts as deemed necessary. All for your enjoyment, no less. The [...]

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New York Magazine’s July 10 issue features a profile on AOL’s Jason Calacanis by John Heilemann titled Suit 2.0. In the summer of 2000 I hosted a panel discussion on the Internet for the SIMA Surf Summit and invited Jason to present the keynote. At the time he was running the Silicon Alley Reporter and [...]

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T. C. Boyle’s new novel Talk Talk comes out July 6, 2006 and I’m buyin’ it. Boyle is the kind of pompous, punk, Southern California writer/professor that one would expect to find on faculty in the english department of the University of Southern California. But I don’t hold his larger than life ego against him [...]

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I first heard about Steven Kotler’s new book West of Jesus : Surfing, Science, and the Origins of Belief on Sacklunch.com. They had linked to a review of the book and I decided I wanted to read it. In talking with TransWorld Surf’s managing editor Casey Koteen I learned that the book had just arrived [...]

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Over the past couple years people have been mentioning The Flaming Lips to me like they are the greatest band ever and that Wayne Coyne is a genius. . . etc. Let me explain: I have very little room in my pop-rock head for art music for art people. Ant music, that’s a different story. [...]

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I was surfing out front this afternoon when Joe James, a surf rep and local, looked over and said, “Hey, do you do work for Fuel TV?” And, I thought for a moment and then asked him why he was wondering, “Oh,” he said. “I saw your name on the credits of some show I [...]

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In her latest Net Sense column Marketwatch.com’s Bambi Fransicso explains many of the reasons why amateur video on video sites like Youtube.com and Google Video are slaying big media when it comes to online video viewing. And, it comes down to legal. Anyone who has tried probably agrees with iTunes senior attorney Matt Burrows : [...]

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According to recent reports on Apple’s latest laptops, the white MacBook is faster, more well-adjusted, and score higher in several tests than the black model. But what benchmark tests don’t consider is the computer’s neighborhood, upbringing, or social status. . . sounds like something for those Freakonomics authors to investigate.

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The invitation to the 686 6-8-6 party mentioned that this was a big day for the company and to celebrate Mike West was throwing a barbeque. Marketing Director Kristin Cusic hinted that Mike would once and for all let the world know what 686 means, why he named the company and what relevance it has [...]

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Dear Corporate Media Executive, Please watch this short video clip. It features two members of your new audience doing pretty much what they do every day. Please note: the girls in the video have a television, a laptop, a phone, an iPod, and a video camera all running simultaneously. Then, they edited the video themselves [...]

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